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Podcast and reviews from the team at Fusion Patrol
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586 – Starhunter Redux – Torment
16/07/2022 Duración: 53minKidnapping at the speed of light? Is this the cunning and lucrative crime bonanza of the future? Kenneth and Eugene discuss Torment. Episode Synopsis Old man Santiago’s got a problem. His parents were kidnapped 50 years ago, and now the kidnapper, Darnell, wants ransom to return them unharmed. They’re just a pair of scared kids, ... Read more
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585 – Ultra Q – Metamorphosis & Fury of the South Sea
09/07/2022 Duración: 42minJohn and Eugene look at two more episodes of the cult classic, Ultra Q. This time we ponder the connection between rare butterflies and the Yeti, plus, what happened to the stunt octopus after filming his big scene. Metamorphosis Episode Synopsis A mountain expedition comes across some bones and footprints. Could it be the yeti?! ... Read more
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584 – Bugs – Whirling Dervish
02/07/2022 Duración: 54minSimon and Eugene discuss memory and learning in SciFi shows in general and using scifi as a MacGuffin rather than a way to explore the human condition in Bugs in particular, and we’ll be talking about the physics of ejecting from a stealth jet, and how the Bugs vision of the 1990s is purely private ... Read more
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583 – Space: 1999 – Mooncatcher, Earthbound, & Journey’s End
25/06/2022 Duración: 01h24sJoin John and Eugene as they listen to and talk about Big Finish Productions’ second Space: 1999 boxset, featuring the stories Mooncatcher, Earthbound, and Journey’s End. Mooncatcher Synopsis 11 months after leaving Earth’s orbit, the Alphans are celebrating the birth of the first child on Alpha – everyone except Paul, that is, who’s a big ... Read more
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582 – Starhunter Redux – The Third Thing
18/06/2022 Duración: 54minKenneth and Eugene ponder the notion, “how bored does a holovision audience have to be to sit and watch a completely unedited feed?” and also, “do they watch when they go to the bathroom?” It’s Starhunter Redux’s Third Thing. Episode Synopsis Matilda is the saccharine, bitchy host of a holovision program called the Third Thing. ... Read more
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581 – Ultra Q – Primordial Amphibian Ragon & Space Directive M774
11/06/2022 Duración: 50minDoes music soothe the savage beast? When does a scientist cross the line from brilliant visionary to quack? Do you know someone who wears sandals, and do you know where they came from? Primordial Amphibian Ragon Synopsis An undersea volcano forms near the fishing waters off Iwane Island. The island is the home of Professor ... Read more
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580 – Bugs – Bugged Wheat
04/06/2022 Duración: 01h28sSimon and Eugene discuss how far futuristic shows should project from the present, and coincidentally where electric bolt guns fit with extrapolating the progression of genetic engineering. We discuss baddies in Bugs and which we would and wouldn’t like to come back and somehow we end up exploring British and American naming conventions. Episode Synopsis ... Read more
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579 – The Omega Man
28/05/2022 Duración: 49minJohn and Eugene ask the question, “why not vampires,” consider if racial prejudice goes away if you lose your pigmentation, and why Chuck Heston never gets a good ending in a film. It’s the Omega Man! Synopsis Col. Dr. Robert Neville is a man with a problem: He’s the last man on Earth, roaming the ... Read more
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578 – Starhunter Redux – Becoming Shiva
21/05/2022 Duración: 40minKenneth and Eugene discuss the Starhunter Redux episode Becoming Shiva and ask the question, are the terrorists playing Grand Master-level chess or deaf, dumb, and blind pinball? Episode Synopsis In a disused, restricted section of Ring Shepard Station, in orbit around Saturn, Salvatore and Nailson, two terrorists from Terra’s Children plant a bomb, and they ... Read more
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577 – Ultra Q – The Rainbow’s Egg & Challenge from the Year 2020
14/05/2022 Duración: 53minJohn and Eugene ponder if eggs might have chains in the Rainbow’s Egg and marvel at the ejaculating alien in Challenge from the Year 2020. The Rainbow’s Egg Synopsis Two truckers are transporting a highly dangerous vaguely egg-shaped container of enriched uranium to a new industrial city in the country. They see blooming bamboo, which ... Read more
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576 – Bugs – What Goes Up… & …Must Come Down
07/05/2022 Duración: 56minWe kick off our Series Two of Bugs coverage with the two-part openers “What Goes Up…” and “…Must Come Down.” (In that same order.) Simon and Eugene discuss Bugs. What Goes Up… Synopsis Because I refuse to call them “Gizmos,” Team Bugs have been called in by the Space Technology Agency or STA to ensure ... Read more
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575 – Starhunter Redux – Spaceman
30/04/2022 Duración: 40minPercy gets some lovin’ from a spaceman. Kenneth and Eugene discuss.
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574 – Doctor Who – Legend of the Sea Devils
23/04/2022 Duración: 01h08minTick tock, goes the clock. It’s the penultimate 13th Doctor adventure, Legend of the Sea Devils. Simon and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis The year is 1807, and the infamous pirate Zhen Yi Sao is assaulting a statue of a sea devil over the protestations of one of the locals. The statute cracks, and out pops ... Read more
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573 – Ultra Q – Garamon Counterattacks & The ⅛ Project
16/04/2022 Duración: 43minThis week we look at two more episodes of Ultra Q. Garamon makes a surprise return in Garamon Counterattacks. Will he be less derpy? In the 1/8 Project, Yuriko accidentally undergoes “voluntary” over-population reduction. John and Eugene discuss. Garamon Counterattacks Episode Synopsis A strange man approaches the Astronomical Physics Lab at night. He uses a ... Read more
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572 – Eleventh Hour – Miracle
09/04/2022 Duración: 01h06minIs there room for miracles in Dr. Ian Hood, Scientist’s worldview? No. Simon and Eugene discuss Miracle. Episode Synopsis In Clayton, the police, acting on behalf of social services, take a child, Alfie, away from his father and proceed with emergency tumor removal surgery against the father’s wishes. He’s been treating the boy with magic ... Read more
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571 – Starhunter Redux – Chasing Janus
02/04/2022 Duración: 48minCallie has been shot. Kenneth and Eugene discuss. Episode Synopsis Travis and Callie are setting up to take in a smuggler named Strasser, but things go south when he recognizes Callie and shoots her. She’s in a bad way and Travis doesn’t take her to the nearest ER, he takes her back to the ancient ... Read more
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570 – Alternative 3
26/03/2022 Duración: 45minHow does an investigation of the British Brain Drain turn into an expose on a secret US/USSR space program? Find out what is Alternative 3 as John and Eugene discuss this 1977 program. Synopsis Anglia Television’s science affairs program, Science Report presents the results months-long investigation, initially into the brain drain effecting Britain’s science community. ... Read more
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569 – Ultra Q – Tokyo Ice Age & Kanegon’s Cocoon
19/03/2022 Duración: 47minTemperatures drop in Tokyo as an old friend returns and an exploration of the dangers of the power of gold. John and Eugene discuss Tokyo Ice Age & Kanegon’s Cocoon. Tokyo Ice Age Episode Synopsis It is a beautiful sunny summer’s day at Haneda airport when first a jet runs into trouble because its flaps are ... Read more
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568 – Eleventh Hour – Kryptos
12/03/2022 Duración: 01h46sClimate Change and cryptography go hand in hand like seashells and fractals, and Dr. Ian Hood, Government Scientist soon finds out. Simon and Eugene discuss Kryptos. Episode Synopsis Richard Adams is a man who likes to walk on the beach, study shells, talk to himself, and run away from would-be assassins. He also happens to ... Read more
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567 – Starhunter Redux – Biocrime
05/03/2022 Duración: 55minEpisode Synopsis Marcus and Callie have been duped into a team-building exercise by Travis. It doesn’t work. There’s no Marcus or Callie in Team Marcus and Callie. While not team building they encounter Taryn, an old friend of Marcus. Long ago, on the mean city streets, they were vagabond, drug-addicts, doing whatever needed to be ... Read more